Software Quality Professional - March 2018

Developing Action Plans Based on Strategy – Aspects to Consider *Open Access*By Peter H. Carstensen and Otto Vinter
The authors have performed a thorough study of the change strategy literature that is the foundation for the 10 overall change strategies defined in ISO/IEC 33014. Then the authors identified eight aspects that should be considered when developing the concrete actions for executing the strategy.

Using SPICE in the Real World: A Large Infrastructural Project ExampleBy Dirk Pfauder, Tomas Schweigert, and Paul Hendriks
The Dutch Infrastructure Authority Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) has been changing the way of tendering huge infrastructure contracts away from traditional projects to public private partnership (PPP) projects. This article explains problems and potential solutions to related issues.

An ISO/IEC 12207 Perspective on Software Development Process AdaptationBy Gerard Marks, Rory V. O’Connor, Murat Yilmaz, and Paul M. Clarke
The authors identify the software development process in a small start-up organization. They then analyze the relationship between the process and the situational context. Their findings support that a software development process is dependent on the organizational context.

Social Context

The Impact of Cultural Issues on the Software Process of Very Small EntitiesBy Tatsuya Nonoyama, Lian Wen, Terry Rout, David Tuffley, and Rory V. O’Connor
ISO/IEC 29110 is a standard of software life cycle processes for very small entities (VSEs). The standard does not address the cultural variations in these VSEs. This article states the standard should recognize the impacts of cultural variation on software processes and cultural suggestions.